# אֲבָנָה (avanah)

Israeli respelling: a-va-nah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H71. 1 Old Testament occurrences.

Abanah, a river near Damascus

King James renderings: Abana.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/avanah-h71

## Occurrences

- [2 Kings 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/5/12) — Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and…